Abstract
Following a ‘first wave’ of behavioral therapy, a ‘second-wave’ fusion of cognitive and behavioral therapy gained favor in the 1970s when basic behavior analytic research failed to adequately address clinically relevant issues related to symbolic meaning and language. These issues have now been largely resolved through subsequent research on stimulus equivalence and Relational Frame Theory, which have identified ways of influencing symbolic verbal behavior via the manipulation of accessible environmental variables rather than grounding causation in thoughts, feelings, and hypothetical mental mechanisms (e.g., schema) that cannot be directly manipulated. Given these advances, stopgap cognitive approaches can be abandoned in favor of the more coherent and singular functional contextual approach inherent in ‘third-wave’ interventions.
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